Played some minecraft with my son and then he commandeered my pc to play skyrim... and by play skyrim I mean he makes a character, gets out of Helgen, steals stuff from the people who take him in at...

My cousin is looking to build his first pc. I'm a bit out of date in my hardware knowledge. His primary goal is to be able to play dark souls 3 when it comes out, he isn't necessarily asking to play...

Thank you Mguire, as always your input is informative and very helpful (as opposed to "buy x cpu and y mobo because it's better" without any info as to why it's better). You and a few others are why...

Hi everybody, it's been a few years since I've paid attention to the hardware scene so I'm a bit behind. Do you think it is worth it for me to upgrade my am3+ rig to an fx 8xxx series cpu? I recently...

howdy, just an update on this situation. I installed the 314.07 drivers as suggested by JoeC about a month ago and no crashes or freezes since. thank you kindly for the advice, my girlfriend however...

Hello again :)
Before your suggestion of Prime95 I had reduced my CPU overclock from 4.0ghz to 3.6ghz (stock is 3.2). I left the +.05 voltage bump where it was. So I ran Prime95 for 5 hours, all was...

I believe i have an old 9300gt floating around somewhere... It doesn't have a fan but i could rig something up. IIRC i ran it passively successfully without crazy temps so long as i didn't push it.
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